pull up your pants

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英文释义

短语
  1. A reference to respectability politics, especially with regard to African-Americans. US,attributive,informal
    — Over at NewsOne, Donovan X. Ramsey contrasted two approaches President Obama has taken with black audiences: 1) the finger-wagging, pull-up-your-pants approach that he often takes with African-Americans, like the graduates at all-male Morehouse College [...]
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pull up, pants.

词源

A reference to sagging among African-Americans, and its associated moral panic.
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